waxkiss Digital Hair Removal Warmer with See-Through Lid and 14oz Pot

I bought this not for cosmetic wax, but to melt hide glue for use in woodworking projects; specifically, for veneering surfaces. The temperature range seemed ideal - hide glue works best around 145-150 degrees F - and the description and reviews seemed favorable.The unit was reasonably well packed and apparently unopened (not a returned item), but there was inexplicably a small dent in the inner pot. This wouldn't affect the functionality at all, so I ignored it, but it was curious... The size was perfect for my application, and the removable inner pot meant that it would be easy to clean. The inner pot is aluminum, but it appears to have a hard anodizing or coating of some sort that makes it nearly non-stick in nature. I'm using it to melt glue, and the hardened glue just slides off without any need for scrubbing.The build quality of the unit seemed very good for the price. Obviously this isn't a laboratory device; it fits solidly in the lower consumer-grade segment. I probably wouldn't get this for a full-time professional gig (or I'd have a spare ready on the shelf), but for hobby purposes it's more than fine. The ergonomic design is good, it feels solid enough and has no tendency to slide or tilt during use, and in general seems like a well-designed product. I haven't taken it apart to check out the internals.Operation couldn't be easier: just plug it in and set the knob to the desired temperature. After a couple of seconds, it reverts to showing the current temperature rather than the setpoint; moving the knob displays the setpoint again while changing it. There's also an LED that glows red while the pot is seeking to the new temperature setpoint, then green when it has achieved the final temperature. This happens quite quickly - within a couple of minutes.As others have noted, this is a bit deceptive, because the outer aluminum pot - not the inner one in which the glue/wax is placed - is not well coupled thermally to the inner pot. This means that although the heating area has reached setpoint, it may be quite some time before the actual contents reach this temperature. In fact, if the lid isn't in place, the substance being heated may never reach the setpoint. This is because of the poor thermal coupling between the outer heating vessel and the inner pot containing the product to be warmed.It turns out that there's an easy way to make this *much* better - just put a small amount - only about 1/8" of water in the outer pot. This is blatantly against the instructions, but I examined the unit carefully, and the outer pot is completely water tight, so there's no danger of water spilling into the guts unless the whole unit is up-ended. This small layer of water provides much better thermal coupling into the inner pot, and it then warms much more quickly and maintains temperature far better. I can now add more glue to an already melted pot, and it will bring the new product up to temperature in just a couple of minutes.So, with the exception of what amounts in my mind to a design flaw of inadequate thermal coupling to the inner wax pot, this product does everything it's intended to, is very easy to use and clean, and seems well-constructed. For less than 25 bucks, it seems like a great deal to me.

Great wax pot. I like the clear lid so you can tell how quickly it’s heating up (and it’s digital) I would say it takes about a solid 20-25 minutes with a FULL pot of wax beads to fully heat up, which isn’t bad. Once you find your right temperature for waxing, you’re gonna be good to go. The digital display makes that easy to do.

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Very hot it heat up wax very good for me to wax myself i would recommend

Calidad

Esta olla de derretir la cera me encanta porque calienta súper rápido

I do not remove hair with this. I'm beyond that kind of help. I do however, use this melt blocks of wax that I use to lubricate my bike chain. Hot wax is the best chain lube you can buy. Don't make me fight you on this. You can spend $100 bucks on a bike specific kit which does have some nice features but uses the same pot, or you can buy the pot and mess around with dowels and wire to get nearly the same results. I can say the pot melts wax as advertised and is way safer than doing it on a burner.

The instructions read. Don't put in water. Great tip thanks. "Function Description: 1. Indicator: The wax warmer start heating while the colorful light flashing, when the temperature reached the setted temperature, the colorful light stop flashing and light off. 2. Knob button: Turn the knob to the right to turn on the wax warmer, continue to rotate to the right to adjust the temperature of the wax warmer. 3. The range of heating temperature is: 30 deg C- 125 deg C /86-257 deg F." I thought i got one that worked but my light never flashed. I tried with a GIGI can of hard wax after looking at the videos I realized it was missing the silicone sleeve that was supposed to be in before the wax can. I used my old wax warm which only melts the sides to heat the wax enough to transfer to the metal pot. Thinking there was just too much space between the walls and the can. I tried at first 110 degrees as I'm using it on my face, I didn't want it body wax hot. The wax never got hot enough to melt the middle of the wax. This is what my old one would do and why I decided to replace it. I went into explore mode and started raising the temperature by 2-10 degs at a time. Nothing seemed to melt the wax properly at 210deg I gave up. As an avid amateur chef, I have a meat thermometer. I turned off the warmer and let it sit a few mins. I wrapped the thermometer in foil restarted to the heat to 190 degs. Once I set the temp the display told me the temp it was achieving on the display all the time climbing the light was solid red. Once the warmer reached 190 i left it sit for 10 mins then used the thermometer to see how hot the wax was at the side. It was 144.7 at the side and the center of the wax has not yet melted. Basically the "temperature" isn't the temperature of the wax its the temperature of the heater. There are no instructions to correlate how hot the warmer is to how hot the wax is. The temp gauge is purely useless. You can't be sure what the temp of the wax is. I specifically chose this one so i could control my wax temp and now I know...